CVE-2025-21648

medium

Published 2025-11-11 · Modified 2025-11-19

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: conntrack: clamp maximum hashtable size to INT_MAX Use INT_MAX as maximum size for the conntrack hashtable. Otherwise, it is possible to hit WARN_ON_ONCE in __kvmalloc_node_noprof() when resizing hashtable because __GFP_NOWARN is unset. See: 0708a0afe291 ("mm: Consider __GFP_NOWARN flag for oversized kvmalloc() calls") Note: hashtable resize is only possible from init_netns.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
sles		affected
rocky	9	fixed
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.128-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.234-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.12.10-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.12.10-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.12.10-1`
linux-kernel		affected	`5.10.234`
linux-kernel	4.7	affected
linux-kernel	6.13	affected
almalinux	9	fixed	`kernel-doc-5.14.0-611.5.1.el9_7.noarch.rpm`

References

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